Midnight Lolita by Shiumi Saki, The Reason for Falling in Love and Stupid Love by Nanao Mio (m&c! manga out nau~) [UPDATED]

Street date: 25 July 2012
I missed posting this Hella-Long-NikBabble™ on the day, so the comments are open (not that they aren't always) to whomever wants to share their impreshuns and ratings of the above shoujo titles, as well as the other m&c! newbies.
Update: Reverted Goong's total volume count back to 27, the last volume, as confirmed by m&c!. (Which makes me wonder exactly where this 궁 28—Goong 28—fits.)

Oroka Mono no Koi · Kanojo ga Kare ni Ochiru Wake © Nanao Mio
Shogakukan [First serialized in Cheese!]. Published in Indonesia as Stupid Love and The Reason for Falling in Love by Gramedia/m&c!

Yes, yes, Most Wanted Manga remains Shiumi Saki's Midnight Lolita (Mayonaka♡Lolita ex-Sho-Comi Zoukan), but as m&c! is on a Nanao Mio roll—her Your Eyes Speak to Me streets next week—letting you feast on this week's Nanao Mio eyecandy. (As TC manga critic Lina-chan vouches, hawt bishies are hawt.) At any rate, Midnight Lolita's (Fake) Loli-cious cover isn't one of Shiumi Saki's best IMO (albeit that feint didn't stop me from giving it an 8 of 10♡...wait. Getting ahead of myself. Nanao Mio's The Reason for Falling In Love first:

Shameless kohai! But my heart pounds whenever I'm alone with you. And you press your advantage and kiss me?! That was my first kiss!

I can't stand you, but why do I find myself falling for you!?

I gave the above-blurbed antho christener a 7 of 10 or B, but The Reason for Falling In Love also collects one-shots Umbrella Girl (also a 7/10), Sugar and Bitter Chocolate (7.25, still a B), the Christmas-troped I'll Tell You in The Holy Night (the top-notcher of the bunch, netting a grade of B+ or 7.75/10) and the cracktastic Story in the Backstage that carries this manga-ka warning: This story will destroy your image of the characters in the original story! (Rated a "Hancur! LMAO!" 7.25 of 10.)

Stupid Love
By Nanao Mio (still)

He's totally not my type! He's evil! Sadly, he's also my brother's best friend... And when he takes off his glasses, I can't help but be captivated. His gaze penetrates my very soul...

Three-act Stupid Love gets a B- or 6.5 of 10 from me, but I'm sure someone else *looks in Lina-chan's direction* gave it a much higher grade. Stupid Love IS compellingly readable but [SPOILER!!!] the emotional cliffie on which it hangs precludes a higher commendation. Yes, despite me being the Glasses! fangirl that I am. (I differ from our heroine Nozomi-chan in that regard.)

Stupid Love also contains the Love Sick one-shot featuring a siscon—and he's not even her blood sib!—which scores higher at 6.75/10 (still in B- territory, however). Capping the volume is the two-paged Brothers Club—every male chara here is someone's older brother—which I awarded a 6.5.

Both The Reason for Falling in Love and Stupid Love are Cheese! (if not Cheese! Zoukan) serials, if we go by the Cheese! FC on the Kanojo ga Kare ni Ochiru Wakeand Oroka Mono no Koi covers. Cheese!, featuring manga that prioritize mature relationships (read: smut), is also home to Aoki Kotomi's Kanojo wa Uso wo Aishisugiteru, streeting this week as Love Lies. KanoUso's provenance more than accounts for why this title is rated for   Mature or Dewasa audiences... And again I'm jumping the gun. I should be babbling about—

Other Nanao Mio manga
m&c! introduced us to Nanao Mio-sensei with the Awww, he likes her... Kiss & Regret, dethroned from second place (I gave it a 7.5 of 10 or B+) by the TRFFIL I'll Tell You in the Holy Night one-shot. Kiss to Koukai serialized in Cheese! Zoukan and is apparently Nanao Mio's debut tank.

Before The Reason for Falling in Love and Stupid Love, m&c! released Flow of Love or Suiren, my highest-scoring Nanao Mio title. I gave the "Do you need artificial respiration?" Flow of Love an 8 of 10♡ (A-), the same grade Lina-chan did.

And as preempted earlier, m&c! releases (this coming Wednesday, 1 August) Your Eyes Speak to Me or Sono Me, Kuchi hodo ni. (Cheese! FC: 2011.08).

Nanao Mio-sensei's latest serial is the Mangaka × Editor office romance Pen Saki ni Syrup, currently running in Cheese! (one volume as of May 2012). Nanao Mio also crafted the Older Female/Younger Male, Student/Teacher Aka no Yuuwaku one-shot for Cheese! Zoukan in 2011, and contributed to the Smut much? Erotic Horror antho in 2009. (Other contributors to this omnibus include Shimaki Ako,Yamada Komomo, Watanabe Shiho and Ichikawa Chihiro.)

(Scroll down for Midnight Lolita plus-plus previews.)

m&c! manga (2012.07.25)

1. Asari-Chan vol 2 (of 21+) by Muroyama Mayumi

Asari-Chan 「あさりちゃん」 by Muroyama Mayumi Shogakukan Tentoumushi Comics, shoujo Volume 78 first published in Japan 2005.07

Related series
Sequels: Yorinuki Asari-chan (two volumes as of 2004.09) and Tobikiri Tokusen Asari-chan (three volumes as of 2008.07)

2. [Premiere] Heart Curtain (Kokoro Curtain) by Nakajima Yuka

Kokoro Curtain 「ココロカーテン」 by Nakajima Yuka Shogakukan Ciao, shoujo This volume first published in Japan 2011.07

Serializations
Serialized in the Indonesian Cherry (concluded)

3. Kirarin Revolution Special Edition (Kirarin Revolution: Tokubetsuhen) vol 3 of 6 by Nakahara An, Ikeda Taeko

Kirarin Revolution: Tokubetsuhen 「きらりん☆レボリューション　特別編」 by Nakahara An, Ikeda Taeko Shogakukan Tentoumushi Special, shoujo Volume 3 first published in Japan 2008.04

Related series
Original story: Kirarin Revolution (14 volumes)

4. [Series Premiere] Love Lies (Kanojo wa Uso wo Aishisugiteru) vol 1 of 8+ by Aoki Kotomi

Kanojo wa Uso wo Aishisugiteru 「カノジョは嘘を愛しすぎてる」 by Aoki Kotomi Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo Volume 1 first published in Japan 2009.09

Other languages
French (Soleil Productions: Lovely love lie Tome 7 shipped 2012.05 • Tome 8 street date: 2012.08.22), German (Egmont Manga & Anime: Liebeslügen Band 5 per 2012.07.12; Band 6 street date: 2012.09) traditional Chinese (Ever Glory Publishing Taiwan: 她愛上了我的謊 7 released 2012.03)

Adaptations
A Kanojo wa Uso wo Aishisugiteru film adaptation was announced in the Cheese! April 2012 issue, released 24 February 2012.

5. [Premiere] Midnight Lolita (Mayonaka♡Lolita) by Shiumi Saki

Mayonaka♡Lolita 「真夜中 ロリータ」 by Shiumi Saki Shogakukan Sho-Comi Zoukan, shoujo This volume first published in Japan 2011.11

6. [Premiere] My Nerdy Girl (Naisho no Jikan) by Aikawa Saki

Naisho no Jikan 「ナイショノジカン」 by Aikawa Saki Shogakukan Sho-Comi, shoujo This volume first published in Japan 2011.11

7. [Premiere] The Reason for Falling in Love (Kanojo ga Kare ni Ochiru Wake) by Nanao Mio

Kanojo ga Kare ni Ochiru Wake 「彼女が彼におちる理由」 by Nanao Mio Shogakukan Cheese! Flower Comics, shoujo This volume first published in Japan 2010.10

8. [Premiere] Runway Dream (Runway wo Produce!!) by Arai Kiyoko

Runway wo Produce!! 「ランウェイを☆プロデュース！！」 by Arai Kiyoko Shogakukan Shonen Sunday, shounen The Cheese! Flower Comics produced by Shonen Sunday volume first published in Japan 2011.08

9. [Premiere] Stupid Love (Oroka Mono no Koi) by Nanao Mio

Oroka Mono no Koi 「愚か者の恋」 by Nanao Mio Shogakukan Cheese! Flower Comics, shoujo This volume first published in Japan 2011.10

m&c! manhwa (2012.07.25)

• Goong [Palace Story] vol 26 of 28 27 by Park SoHee

Goong 「궁(宮)」 by Park SoHee Seoul Cultural Publishers Wink, soonjung Volume 26 first published in Korea 2011.09

Other languages
English Goong: The Royal Palace (Yen Press: 13 volumes as of 2012.05 • volume 14 street date: 2012.08.28), French (Samji Editions: Palais Tome 13 per 2012.01), Japanese (Shinshokan: らぶきょん　ＬＯＶＥ　ｉｎ景福宮; Un Poco Comics volume 27 released 2012.02)

Adaptations
Live-action Princess Hours, starring Yoon EunHye (ChaeKyeong), Joo JiHoon (Shin), Kim JeongHoon (Yul) and Song Ji Hyo (HyoRin) aired in Korea from January to March 2006. The Goong S spin-off aired on the same MBC network from January to March 2007.

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